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"I worked with my brother, Stephen Mar- den, until I was twenty-two years of age, when I bought the farm on which I now live (1855) with the barn then built and a log house thereon. April 23, 1801, I was united in marriage with Mary Bagley, of Liberty, Maine, and moved on to the farm that spring, with a pleasing prospect of enjoying happi- ness. For three of four years we were favor- ed with good health and our crops came in bountifully, and all things bespoke prosperity. "January 22, 1805, I was severely wounded by the falling of a tree. Then my sufferings were very great. Yet my mind was happy in the Lord, and I could truly say, 'Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him.' On the third day of February I had my left leg amputated above the knee, which was very expensive at that time, so that my future prospects of hap- piness in this world began to decay. In April following we chose our town officers for the first time. I took a part with them in collect- ing taxes and serving precepts, etc. This year with the past will long be remembered as a season of great religious excitement in this town and vicinity. A Baptist church was or- ganized that season and many were added thereto. I was baptized and added to the church at the next August conference. On the tenth of September my companion was taken sick and died on the sixteenth-with rash and putrid fever-aged about twenty- two. My little son died on the twenty-first, aged three and a half years. I had two chil- dren left to the mercies of the people, a daughter Eliza, two years old, and a little son Hiram, six days old. Then was my house left to me desolate and everything of this world's was clothed in gloom. All my future pros- pects gone and the lonely graveyard was the pleasantest place that I could visit. * * *
I disposed of my children where they were nursed with tenderness and care. I left my house and attended to my business in town that fall. In the winter I went to New Hamp-
shire to visit my friends. I returned in the spring and finished my collecting and engaged in town business again. In the year 1805 I let out my farm to Elder Robinson and Dr. Pratt with but little expectations to pay the bills and save the farm. I earned what I could. I found that I had many friends to encourage me and made me some presents. I was en- couraged to try and pay the bills and save the farm. This season I formed an acquaintance with Mrs. Eunice Ward of Harlem (now China) who was left a widow about the same time-and near the same age, with three chil- dren, two daughters and a son, the eldest six years and the youngest seventeen months, with about seven or eight hundred dollars worth of property for their support, she a professor of religion and a member of the Baptist church in Harlem. We were united in marriage on August 24, 1806, and moved home and commenced keeping house that fall. She assisted me to pay the bills and stock the farm. I was encouraged to pursue a course of farming for a living and attend to the town business and such labor as I could do. Soon after this I was chosen town clerk and kept the records, which was continued about twen- ty years. In the year 1816 I was appointed second postmaster in Palermo, which was con- tinued about seven years. Having the com- pany and the assistance of a prudent and in- dustrious companion I have enjoyed much peace of mind for many years and have wit- nessed much of the goodness of the Lord. We were members of the First Baptist Church in Palermo forty-five years. We took much sat- isfaction with our christian friends, both in prosperity and in adversity. In the year 1850 my companion was taken sick and died Febru- ary 28, 1851, aged seventy years : and four months. We had nine children, * * *
Where I reside is about twenty miles north- easterly of Augusta, then called Fort Weston. The inhabitants east and north of my resi- dence were but few at that time. Several small settlements were made in the woods, and generally called after the name of the first set- tler or by the old Indian name of ponds and streams. The land was very good for crops of corn and rye. Each settler made his choice for a farm. No taxes were called for at that time. There were no framed buildings east or north of my residence for the space of twelve or fifteen miles, and three or four miles to the south and west until the next April, 1793, when two barn frames were put up, to the great joy of the settlers, but more so to the owners." He describes the growth and de-
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velopment of the town and state, giving a good picture of the pioneer days. "These set- tlers were all laboring men, engaged in their several occupations, such as clearing land, raising crops, putting up buildings and fences in the summer and fall. In the winter and spring all engaged in lumbering, hunting and sugar-making, which was much of it done in the forest at that time. These settlers were all very poor, but as 'happy as clams' and as friendly to each other as monkeys." Of his fellow-pioneers he writes (1855): "The few that are left are worn down with age and in- firmities too numerous for me to name ; some with the loss of sight and hearing ; some with the loss of their limbs; some with palsied hands ; and others with general debilities, etc. And but very few, if any, are able to take care of themselves, but have mostly given them- selves up to the care of their children or grandchildren or the town to provide for them." He died August 25, 1860, aged eighty- one years.
(VI) Benjamin Marden, son of Stephen Marden (5), was born in Palermo, October 26, 1798. He married Hannah Carr, of the same town. Among their children was Stephen P.
(VII) Stephen P. Marden, son of Benja- min and Hannah (Carr) Marden (6), was born at Palermo, March 3, 1820, died January 4, 1888. He married Julia A. Avery, a mem- ber of an old Essex family, and had children : Willie E., July 4, 1850, died March 20, 1871. Oscar Avery, see forward. Frank Webster, see forward.
(VIII) Oscar Avery Marden, son of Ste- phen P. (7), and Julia A. (Avery) Marden, was born in Palermo, August 20, 1853. He was educated in the district schools, with an occasional term in the high school and West- brook Seminary. He worked on the farm of his father until he was seventeen years of age, commencing to teach school during the winter terms from the early age of fifteen years. He had charge of the English department of Dirigo Business College, at Augusta, Maine, in 1871 and 1872, and in the spring of the lat- ter year came to Boston and accepted the posi- tion of bookkeeper for the New England office of the Victor Sewing Machine Company of Middletown, Connecticut. He remained with that concern until the fall of 1874, when he entered the law office of Samuel K. Hamilton, in the old Barristers Hall, Court Square, as a student. At the same time he commenced a course of study in the law school of Boston University. He was awarded his degree of
LL.B. in June, 1876, and the following fall was admitted to the bar. He began legal prac- tice in Boston, where he has had his law offices for the greater part of the time, in the Rogers building. He made his home in Stoughton, where he also had law offices, and where he held a commission as trial justice from 1877 to 1891. When the district court of Southern Norfolk was established in the. latter year he was appointed judge. This dis- trict includes Stoughton, Canton, Sharon and Avon, and Judge Marden has filled the office until the present time. He has been a leading member of the Norfolk Bar Association for a number of years, and was secretary from 1886 to 1891. He was a Democrat in politics but. not an active partisan, and has enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow townsmen. regardless of their political views. He was a member of the Stoughton school committee from 1886 to 1889, and from 1892 to 1894. He has been president of the Stoughton Grenadier Association since 1880. He is prominent in the Order of Odd Fellows, and was grand patriarch of the Grand Encamp- ment of Massachusetts in 1893, and president of the Encampment Deputies Association in 1894. He is a member of the Pine Tree State Club, which is composed of natives of Maine resident in Boston and its vicinity.
Judge Marden married, October 19, 1882, at Stoughton, May Theresa Ball, daughter of Francis M. and Rosetta A. Ball. Mrs. Mar- den died April 4, 1890. Their children were : Edgar Avery, a graduate of Dartmouth Col- lege, and now a student in the Harvard Law School. Oscar Herbert, born September 3, 1887, died June 15, 1891, aged about four years. Judge Marden married (second) Car- oline Avery. No issue.
(VIII) Frank Webster Marden, third son and child of Stephen P. (7), and Julia A. (Avery) Marden, was born in Palermo, May 25, 1855. His early education was acquired in the district schools and the high school, and this was supplemented by attendance at a busi- ness college in Augusta, Maine, for two years. He remained on the farm of his father until he had attained the age of twenty-four years and then decided to make his own way in the world. He went to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving in that city .May 6, 1879, and entered the office of Rufus G. Norris, his uncle, who was a dealer in foreign and domestic oils. He was thus employed for a period of seven and a half years, until the death of his uncle in: January, 1886. Mr. Marden then, in associa- tion with George H. Leonard, purchased the-
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business and conducted it under the firm name of George H. Leonard & Company. The pres- ent firm was organized June 1, 1906, with offices at Nos. 201-225 Purchase street, Bos- ton, Massachusetts, with branches at New York, Chicago, Louisville and San Francisco, where they have stores carrying their goods. When Mr. Marden left the farm and entered the business of his uncle, he had formed the determination to thoroughly master all the de- tails, and was satisfied with rather a subordin- ate position at first. "He became bookkeeper and later seller, thus acquiring a knowledge of all the branches and every detail, and this has conduced to his present success. The business has grown to immense proportions, and Mr. Marden still pays especial attention to the selling department, being satisfied per- sonally that every customer gets what he pur- chases. He is a thorough believer in honest methods of doing business and attributes his success to "hard work and honest representa- tion." Under his able supervision the firm has grown rapidly and now does business valued at two million dollars per year. Much of this success is due to Mr. Marden, personally, his affable and considerate manner winning many customers, and those once acquired are never lost. There is no firm in the United States which is rated more highly in the estimation of their customers than that of Marden, Orth & Hastings, they have a justly earned reputa- tion for probity and honest and upright deal- ings in every respect. The religious affiliations of Mr. Marden and his family are with the Universalist church. He is a Democrat in politics but takes no active part in the con- claves of his party. He is fraternally associ- ated with the following organizations: Paul Revere Lodge, No. 184, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Oil Trade Association of Boston; Sons of Maine Club of Somerville. His leisure time is spent with his family, to whom he is devoted.
He married, August 9, 1882, Jennie (Olive Jane) Ayer, daughter of Peter W. and Happy (Murch) Ayer. (Sketches of the Murch and Ayer families will be found below.) Mr: and Mrs. Marden have had children: I. Julia, born in Somerville, is a graduate of the public schools, an English high school and a private school at Ossining, New York. 2. Helen, born in Somerville, was graduated from the public schools and the Somerville Latin high school, studied one year in private school in Ossining, New York, and is now a member of the class of 1909, Smith College. 3. Louise Estelle, born at Somerville, is a graduate of the public
schools and the Somerville Latin high school, and is now a student in Smith College, class of 1910.
(I) Walter Murch, the great-great-grand- father of Mrs. Marden, was born on the ocean while his parents were on their way to this country from England. They landed at Old Orchard Beach. Walter Murch had learned the trade of shoemaking, and he followed this occupation in his new home. Among his chil- dren was a son, Simeon.
(II) Simeon Murch, son of Walter Murch, was born in Gorham, Maine. He learned the trade of shoemaking from his father and fol- lowed it. Later he bought a farm at Unity, settled in the Wilderness. He and his wife rode to Unity on horseback, a distance of one hundred miles, he having on his horse his daughter, Rebecca, who was about three years of age, and his wife having with her on the horse her son, Josiah, an infant, and a spin- ning wheel. Simeon Murch married Rachel Payne, of Cape Cod.
(III) Josiah Murch, son of Simeon and Rachel (Payne) Murch, was born at Buxton, Maine, July II, 1792, and died June 1, 1885. He assisted his father in the cultivation of the farm, which he later purchased. He married Olive Whitney, born in Gorham, January 8, 1791, died January 8, 1880, daughter of Dan- iel Whitney, of Gorham, who was a soldier during the Revolutionary war.
AYER In the early records there is an al- most endless variety of spellings for this surname and a number of the variations have survived to the present time. Among the spellings were : Aars, Aers, Ahheayrs, Ahheire, Aier, Aiere, Aiers, Air, Aires, Airs, Ares, Aries, Ayeres, Ayers, Ayhaire, Ayre, Ayres, Eaire, Eairs, Eares, Eayer, Wayr, Eayre, Eires, Eyer, Eyers, Eyre, Eyres and Heires. The name is an an- cient and honorable English surname.
(I) John Ayer, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and settled first in Salisbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1640, when he was a proprietor of that town. He sold his house and lands and removed to the adjacent town of Haverhill about 1647. He was a proprietor in 1648-49 and bought various parcels of land. He was a town officer and leading citizen. His sons, John, Jr., Robert and Thomas, were also proprietors in 1650. He married Hannah , who died at an advanced age, October 8, 1688. He died March 31, 1657. His will was dated March 12, 1656, and proved at
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Hampton, October 6, 1657. He bequeathed to his wife Hannah; sons John, Thomas, Rob- ert, Obadiah, Peter and Nathaniel; daughters Hannah, Rebecca and Mary. John had the homestead. Children: I. John, resided at Haverhill and Ipswich, married, May 5, 1646, Sarah Williams, and (second), March 26, 1663, Mary Wooddam. 2. Rebecca, married, October 8, 1648, John Aslet, at Newbury. 3. Sergeant Robert, born about 1625, married, February 27, 1650, Elizabeth Palmer. 4. Thomas, resided in Haverhill; married, April I, 1656, Elizabeth Hutchins. 5. Peter, born about 1633, mentioned below. 6. Mary, born 1634. 7. Obadiah, lived in Haverhill, and re- moved 1669 to Woodbridge, New Jersey ; married, March 19, 1660-61, Hannah Pike. 8. Nathaniel, married, May 10, 1670, Tamesin Turloar at Haverhill. 9. Hannah, born De- cember 21, 1644, in Salisbury, married, March 24, 1662-63, Stephen Webster.
(II) Cornet Peter Ayer, son of John Ayer (I), was born about 1633 and died January 2, 1698-99, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman in May, 1666. He was a yeoman of Haverhill; a prominent citizen ; deputy to the general court in 1683-85-89-90. He married, November 1, 1659, Hannah Al- len, who died December 22, 1729, aged eigh- ty-seven years. Children, born at Haverhill : I. Ruth, born October 7, 1660, married John Denison, of Ipswich, weaver. 2. Hannah, born August 21, 1662, married Lieutenant John Osgood, of Andover, October 17, 1681. 3. Abigail, born July 4, 1664, married, June 7, 1683, Robert Lord, of Ipswich. 4. Mary, born August 6, 1666, married Joseph Calef, of Ips- wich. 5. Martha, born March 1, 1667-68, married Captain Peter Osgood. 6. Samuel, born September 28, 1669, mentioned below. 7. William, born September 23, 1673, died No- vember 20, 1675. 8. Rachel, born October 18. 1675, died May 21, 1678, of small pox. 9. Ebenezer, born May 22, 1678, died October IO, 1695.
(III) Captain Samuel Ayer, son of Cornet Peter Ayer (2), was born at Haverhill, Sep- tember 28, 1669; a yeoman of Haverhill; died there January 2, 1743-44. He had a large property for his time, having among other chattels a negro slave. He married, Novem- ber 21, 1693, Elizabeth Tuttle, of Ipswich, who died November 29, 1752. Children: I. Hannah, born November 29, 1694, married Andrew Mitchell, Jr., April 5, 1720. 2. Peter, born October 1, 1696. 3. Samuel, born Au- gust 4, 1698. 4. William, born February 6, 1701-02. 5. Ebenezer, born February 18,
1704-05, mentioned below. 6. Elizabeth, born January 26, 1707-08, married, February 26, 1729-30, Daniel Bradley. 7. Susan, born De- cember 26, 1709. 8. Sarah, born May 18, 17II,. married, February 15, 1732-33, Samuel Emer- son.
(IV) Lieutenant Ebenezer Ayer, son of Captain Samuel Ayer (3), was born at Hav- erhill, February 18, 1704-05, died aged fifty- seven years, March 3, 1761-2. He was a yeoman of Haverhill, and Methuen, Massa- chusetts. When the state line was fixed his. house was included in the town of Salem, New Hampshire. He married (first), March 29, 1726, Susanna Kimball, who died September 20, 1749. He married (second) Elizabeth , who died January 2, 1786, aged sev- enty-one (gravestone), at Salem Centre. He was one of the proprietors of Buxton, Maine, and November 15, 1758, was appointed on a committee to repair the meeting house. Ad- ministration on his estate was granted April II, 1763. Children, born at Salem: I. Major Ebenezer, born March 22, 1727, soldier in the Revolution ; married, at Pepperellboro, July 4,. 1754, Plaisted Scammon. 2. Elizabeth, born January 15, 1727-28, died young. 3. Sarah, born October 27, 1730. 4. Philip, born Feb- ruary 28, 1731-32, died November 2, 1756, in Methuen. 5. Tuttle, born April, 1734, died young. 6. Tuttle, born May 17, 1735. 7. Peter, born May 12, 1737, mentioned below. 8. Timothy, born July 16, 1740, married Eliz- abeth , and (second) Elizabeth (Scam- mon) Moody. 9. John, born April 2, 1744. IO. Joseph, born May 22, 1746, married in Standish, Maine, October 3, 1775, Eunice Clark. II. Isaiah, born September 19, 1749, died September 25, 1772. 12. William, born May 23, 1752. 13. Elizabeth, born September 28, 1753. 14. Samuel, born September I,. 1754, married Anna Currier. 15. Philip, born November 3, 1758. 16. John, baptized at: Haverhill, October 12, 1760.
(V) Peter Ayer, son of Lieutenant Eben- ezer Ayer (4), was born at Salem, New Hampshire, formerly Methuen, May 12, 1737 .. He is said to have been a soldier in the Revo- lution. He was chairman of the school com- mittee in district No. 5 in Buxton in 1783 .. He resided in what is now Standish, Maine. He died March 23, 1805, aged sixty-eight. His wife Rebecca died October 28, 1795, aged fifty-eight. He married (second) Sarah Jen- kins, of Pepperellboro, Maine. Child, Benja- min, born November 23, 1763, mentioned be- low.
(VI) Rev. Benjamin Ayer, son of Peter
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Ayer (5), was born in Standish, Maine, No- vember 23, 1763. At the age of sixteen he was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in a company sent to reinforce the northern army for six months under Captain Benjamin War- ren. He was one of six men sent by the town of Buxton, and during this service attained the rank of corporal. He enlisted July 14, 1780, and was mustered out January 30, 1781. Later he became a Methodist Episcopal minis- ter at Standish and Unity, Maine. He resided also at Falmouth (now Portland) and Free- dom, Maine. He died July 29, 1844. He married, April 25, 1785, Rachel Sanborn, of Standish, born July 19, 1762, daughter of John and Lucy (Sanborn) Sanborn. Her father was born at Hampton Falls, January 9, 1723, resided in his native town, and in Fal- mouth and Standish, Maine. Her mother died September, 1775. John Sanborn married (second) Mrs. Betty Pierce, who died July, I812. He died December 6, 1802. Abner Sanborn, father of John, was born at Hamp- ton, April 27, 1694; married, October 31, 1715, Rachel Shaw, daughter of Caleb Shaw, and resided at Hampton Falls where he died January 18, 1780. John Sanborn, father of Abner Sanborn, was born about 1649, son of the immigrant, John Sanborn or Sambourne ; was admitted a freeman April 25, 1678; mar- ried, November 19, 1674, Judith Coffin, daughter of Tristram Coffin, of Newbury; she was born December 4, 1653, and died May 17, 1724; John died September 23, 1727. (See sketch of Sanborn family of Somerville.)
Rev. Benjamin and Rachel (Sanborn) Ayer had children : I. Annis, born February 3, 1786. 2. Lydia, February 5, 1788. 3. Peter, January 22, 1790, died June 6, 1854. 4. Benjamin, Jr., May 18, 1792, died September 24, 1835. 5. Rachel, November 2, 1794, died December 5, 1794. 6. John S., October 29, 1795. 7. Rachel, May 20, 1798. 8. Thomas B., June 3, 1800.
(VII) Peter Ayer, son of Rev. Benjamin (6), and Rachel (Sanborn) Ayer, was born January 22, 1790, and died June 6, 1854. He married, March 2, 1815, Jane Bartlett, born March 7, 1795, died December 29, 1889. She was the daughter of Lemuel and Hannah (Chase) Bartlett, and granddaughter of Jo- seph Bartlett, a soldier during the Revolution. The Bartlett family migrated from Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Unity, Maine, after the Revolution.
Joseph Bartlett served practically through- out the Revolution. He received an honor- ary badge for faithful service from Decem- ber 21, 1775, at the close of the war, ranking
as sergeant at that time. He enlisted for the remainder of the war in 1777 in Lieutenant Colonel John Brooks' regiment, the Seventh, and was a corporal in Captain Benjamin Warren's company, Colonel Alden's bat- talion, at Albany, New York, 1777-78. The state archives give his birthplace and resi- dence as Plymouth, Massachusetts; age forty- four in 1782; height, five feet, nine inches ; complexion, dark; hair dark; occupation, mason. He ranked as sergeant on the pay rolls from June, 1778. He was at Cherry Valley, New York, May 4, 1779. He was in Captain Benjamin Warren's company, Lieu- tenant-Colonel John Brooks' regiment, from February I to July I, 1781, and in Captain William Mills' company to February 1, 1782, ranking as sergeant. He had a sixty-day furlough December 16, 1782, and was finally discharged at the close of the war, June 10, 1783.
The children of Peter and Jane (Bartlett) Ayer, all born in Freedom, Maine, were: I. Rachel Jane, born December 28, 1815, mar- ried, March, 1843, Sumner Abbott. 2. Han- nah Bartlett, October 25, 1817, married, May 26, 1842, Erasmus Henry Cochran. 3. Nathan Chase, October 17, 1819, married, June, 1844, Lucy P. Wellington. 4. Annis Chase, January 1, 1823, married, March 29, 1849, Benjamin B. Stevens. 5. Peter W., see forward. 6. Rebecca Wheeler, July 25, 1833, married, May 8, 1860, Rev. Charles E. Springer. 7. Mary True, April 18, 1835, married, March 14, 1856, James B. Vickery. 8. Joseph Bartlett, June 26, 1837, married, October, 1861, Mary E. Berry.
(VIII) Peter W. Ayer, son of Peter (7) and Jane (Bartlett) Ayer, was born at Freedom, Maine, November II, 1826. He married, April 19, 1854, Happy Murch, mentioned above, and had children: I. James Stanley, born January 15, 1855. He is a mer- chant in Brewer, Maine. He married, July 16, 1891, Mary Goodwin, and has had chil- dren: Frances, Winnifred, Peter, deceased; and Milton. 2. Jennie (Olive Jane), who married Mr. Marden. 3. Laura K., married, June II, 1890, J. Mason Hammond, and has had children: Frank S. and Dorothy. 4. Jo- siah M., November 2, 1863. He is a gradu- ate of the University of Maine, and pursued scientific studies at Harvard University. He is now civil engineer on the Boston Elevated Railroad. 5. Lucy E., is a trained nurse. 6. Mary T., is an artist. 7. Rufus Prince, born October 19, 1873, is on the old homestead at Freedom, Maine, which was owned and occu-
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pied by his grandfather. He took up the land, five hundred acres, June 6, 1904, and it is now one of the most productive farms in the state of Maine. 8. John P., born April 26, 1877, is a graduate of the Bangor Business College, and is now a member of the firm of Talbot, Brooks & Ayer, dealers in hardware, at Portland, Maine.
Samuel Stratton, the immi- STRATTON grant ancestor of the Strat- tons of Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, was born in England, in 1592, and married his first wife there, and she probably died soon after her husband, herself and their two sons arrived in America. Samuel Stratton appeared as a surveyor of town lots in Water- town, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1647,
became a freeman of the town of Watertown, May 27, 1663, and married, March 10, 1659, Elizabeth Traine, and their children were: I. Elizabeth, born in Watertown, died in in- fancy, 1659. 2. John, born August 24, 1661. 3. Elizabeth, born July 2, 1664. 4. Joseph, born January 13, 1666. 5. Samuel, born Sep- tember 18, 1669. 6. Rebecca, born May 16, 1672. 7. Ebenezer, born November 2, 1677, died in infancy. 8. Ebenezer, born October 2, 1678. 9. Jonathan, born March 6, 1679. John Stratton, the father, died in Watertown, April 7, 1691, and his widow died May 7, 1708.
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